Last year, we foreshadowed the announcement by Transport Minister Chris Bishop of several planned changes to NZ road rules, including several quite relevant to cycling. Last week, the Government launched consultation on these Rule changes, with public submissions due …

You might have heard the news the other day that the Government is proposing a number of interesting road rule changes, many of them with significance for cycling. I’ll cover them in more detail in a future post but, for …

The media have just picked up the announcement from Christchurch City Council that our fair city has been named the most bicycle-friendly city in Asia and Oceania and 38th globally (I’d like to think they got the heads-up from an …

After all the drama and debate, the dust has settled and we have a confirmed set of City Councillors and Community Board members – congratulations to all the successful candidates! Again, I’m a bit disappointed in how few people actually …

Another three-year cycle (see what I did there…) is drawing to a close, and it’s time for local government elections once more. By now, you should have received your voting papers in the mail and can now ponder who to …

No surprises that cycleways are one of the hot topics in this coming election, and will no doubt get some airing at the Mayoral Forum next Thu 4th Sep. A news article last week looked into the supposed extravagance …

Hot on the heels of all the palaver about cycle helmets (and even The Spinoff has waded into the discussion this week), let me take you back to this post from Nov 2012, when guest blogger “Meerkat” decided to …

There’s been an interesting flurry of discussions in the past few days, following the news that Regulation Minister David Seymour sought advice on the possibility of removing mandatory cycling helmet requirements. The upshot (for now at least) is that …

You may have seen a week ago some fairly big transport news came down from the Government, announcing future plans to do away with petrol excise levies for motorists and replace them with Road User Charges (RUCs) instead. Not surprisingly, …

As of 12pm today, time is up for nominations by people to stand in the coming local body elections. Now the fun begins of even more campaigning, leading up to us, the voters, to decide who to support. No …